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Network Members

This listing of NCTSN members includes current grantees as well as NCTSN Affiliates, former grantees who have maintained their ties to the Network.

Griffin, Gene, JD, PhD

Individual Affiliate - Illinois

Gene is retired faculty from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where he was part of a Category II grant that focused on the CANS assessment tool.  Presently Gene is the state-appointed Chair of the Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership and remains involved with activities focused on public sector child welfare, mental health, juvenile justice, and child trauma issues.

Location:
Chicago , IL

Grosso, Christina, MA

Individual Affiliate - New York

Christina Grosso is the creator of Mind+Body=ONE, an integrative mental health practice in Westchester, NY. Ms. Grosso has worked as a clinician, supervisor, trainer, and leader specializing in the treatment of complex trauma in children and adolescents with mental illness and intellectual & developmental disorders. She has extensive experience in the practice, implementation, and training of Trauma Informed Care and evidence-based practices. Ms. Grosso served at the Jewish Board for over 20 years where she led the agency’s trauma training and organizational development initiatives focusing on the integration of clinical and milieu services. Ms. Grosso’s work has focused on system change and has consulted with child psychiatric centers and residential treatment facilities nationwide to disseminate Trauma Informed Care. She has authored papers in the field of trauma, self-care, art therapy, and TF-CBT including “Children with Developmental Disabilities” in Cohen, Mannarino and Deblinger’s book, Trauma Focused CBT for Children and Adolescents. She is the co-creator of the curriculum and NCTSN product, My Identity My SELF: Addressing the Needs of LGBTQ in Treatment (MIMS). Ms. Grosso is a certified clinician and supervisor in Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT) and a certified trainer in Psychological First Aid and serves on the NCTSN Terrorism & Disaster, Trauma and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and Peer Support workgroups. Ms. Grosso is on faculty at New York University in the Steinhardt School Graduate Art Therapy Department. She is a practicing artist and her work focuses on abstract expressionism and process-based response art. Ms. Grosso is a doctoral candidate at Saybrook University in Mind-Body Medicine with a focus on integrative mental health and mindful leadership in healthcare.

Location:
Mind+Body=ONE, Integrative Mental Health Brewster , NY
Work:
(917) 669-5838

Gustman, Brian, PhD

Individual Affiliate - California

I am a licensed psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, CA, providing evidence-based psychotherapy, psychological assessments, psycho-educational evaluations, and trauma-informed educational consultation. My areas of specialty are in TF-CBT, CBT, and educational accommodations and services for children with traumatic stress symptoms that interfere with their education.

Location:
San Francisco , CA
Work:
(415) 925-5537

Hanson, Rochelle

Location:

Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress

Organizational Affiliate - Washington
Funding Period:
2002-2005

The Harborview Child Traumatic Stress Program is located at the Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress (HCSATS), a specialty program of the Harborview Medical Center, a University of Washington teaching hospital. The center serves children and adults affected by child maltreatment, rape and other violent crime, and other traumatic events.

Among its accomplishments as part of the NCTSN, the center: 1) increased its capacity to deliver evidence-based interventions at HCSATS; 2) improved mechanisms for identifying and linking affected children served within the medical center to other services; 3) created a collaboration with specialized community providers serving victims in diverse settings to increase identification, access, and availability of culturally specific treatments; and 4) constructed and managed a website for distance learning that also serves as a clinical resource for practitioners across the state.

Location:
325 9th Ave Box 359947
Seattle , WA 98102
Staff:

Harvey E. Najim Hope Center

Community Treatment and Services Centers - Category III - Texas
Funding Period:
2021-2026

Our model includes licensed therapist—family support services teams trained to deliver high quality, compassionate trauma-informed care by providing evidence-based treatment, such as Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy® (TF-CBT); Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI); Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) serving children ages two to seven; and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Families are paired with a family support worker to provide aftercare for up to 12 months after discharge.

Location:
2939 W Woodlawn Ave
San Antonio , TX 78228
Staff:

Hazratzai, Mohammad Sediq, MD, MPH

Individual Affiliate - California

Mohammad Sediq Hazratzai MD, MPH is Director of Sehat Initiative (SI), a program of the Public Health Institute (PHI), established in response to the humanitarian and healthcare needs of refugees. SI focus is to improve the health and well-being of refugees in California and throughout the United States. Founded by medical and public health experts from within the refugee community, it serves as a crucial bridge between refugees and their wider medical and social environment. Dr.Sediq is a career public health professional and researcher with extensive experience focused on refugee and immigrant health. As a visiting professor at the University of California Davis, Dr. Sediq teaches refugee health and comparative health systems. Dr. Sediq is also a credentialed Principal Investigator with the Public Health Institute (PHI) and an affiliate with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Institute for Global Health Sciences. Dr. Sediq has worked with nonprofits, IOM (UN Migration Agency), and Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health in projects focused on the most vulnerable populations – refugees, migrants, Injecting Drug Users (IDUs), and HIV high-risk groups. Dr.Sediq is a board member with Upwardly Global a leading nonprofit that helps immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals rebuild their careers in the United States. Dr. Sediq used to be a trainer with PHI’s Lotus Project, which focused on child trauma. Dr.Sediq is PI on the California statewide Afghan Refugee School Impact (ARSI) and Ukrainian Refugee School Impact (URSI) programs that support an estimated 10,000 newly arrived refugee children.

Location:
Oakland , CA

Healing Hurt People (HHP), which is part of Drexel University's Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice (CNSJ), Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University

Community Treatment and Services Centers - Category III - Pennsylvania
Funding Period:
2021-2026

Established in Philadelphia in 2007, Healing Hurt People (HHP), a hospital and community-based violence intervention program, serves children (ages 8 to 17) and young adult (ages 18 to 35) victims of and witnesses to interpersonal violence. HHP, part of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice (CNSJ) at Drexel University, provides trauma-focused therapy, peer support, and case management. Since 2009, HHP has been operating at the Emergency Department of St Christopher's Hospital for Children, a large pediatric hospital in Philadelphia. HHP also has long-standing partnerships with and receives referrals from local Level I and II Trauma Centers. HHP utilizes a phase-based approach to help children, youth, and their families recover from the psychological sequelae of violent injury by engaging them in culturally competent services that promote healing and resiliency. HHP uses hospital and community partnerships as points of identification, incorporating assertive outreach led by peer specialists to engage a historically marginalized population that seldom seeks behavioral health services at the traditional outpatient clinic setting. Licensed master's level professionals offer trauma-specific therapy. HHP services are provided in various settings, including home, community, hospital, office, school, and Telehealth. Since 2018, HHP has implemented an innovative approach to trauma services by integrating home and community-based Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) with peer services and case management for its pediatric population. HHP also offers the Community of Young People Healing, Experiencing, Rebuilding (CYPHER)/ Safety, Emotions, Loss and Future (SELF) groups.

Location:
1505 Race St, 6th floor
Philadelphia , PA 19102
Staff:

Healthy Environments and Response to Schools (HEARTS), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Community Treatment and Services Centers - Category III - California
Funding Period:
2020-2025

HEARTS is a whole-school prevention/intervention program that aims to create trauma-informed, safe, supportive, and equitable learning and teaching environments that foster resilience and wellness for everyone in the school community. HEARTS utilizes a multi-tiered system of support to address trauma at the student, staff, school organizational, and district levels through training and consultation with school personnel, and mental health supports for students and families. HEARTS work is guided by six principles that are grounded in trauma research and an extensive review of trauma-informed systems work nationally: Understanding Trauma and Stress; Cultural Humility and Equity; Safety and Predictability; Compassion and Dependability; Empowerment and Collaboration; and Resilience and Social Emotional Learning. A core feature distinguishing HEARTS from many other trauma-informed school approaches is the centrality of cultural responsiveness and equity in all aspects of the program. We believe that given the toxic, trauma-inducing, and pervasive nature of structural racism and other forms of oppression, any efforts to mitigate the effects of trauma must include efforts to counteract these harms. Further, without a culturally responsive and equity-promoting lens, there is a risk that trauma concepts could be used to pathologize marginalized communities rather than underscore their resilience. HEARTS-Extended (HEARTS-E) is our NCTSI-funded project that provides evidence-based trauma-focused mental health treatment, services, and support systems for trauma-impacted children and youth at three elementary and two middle school sites in San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), focusing on capacity-building for SFUSD personnel to deliver these services.

Location:
1001 Potrero Ave., 7M8
San Francisco , CA 94110
Staff:

Heartland Alliance International

Community Treatment and Services Centers - Category III - Illinois
Funding Period:
2009-2012, 2018-2023

The Healing Journeys Program at the Kovler Center in Chicago provides trauma-informed mental health support, wrap-around case management, and advocacy for refugee, asylum-seeking, and immigrant youth ages 0-21 who have experienced trauma in their home country, during the migration journey, or through the resettlement process. The mission of the program is that "through trauma-informed, evidence-based services, The Kovler Center Healing Journeys Program partners with forcibly displaced youth who have experienced trauma and their support systems to identify their goals for health and healing, and accompanies youth on their therapeutic journey to realize these goals."

Location:
Chicago , IL
Work:
(224) 479-2711
Staff:

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